I’m literally at the point I won’t waste a round of ammunition on a Canada goose.
The stuff used to grow turf, kill weeds, kill bugs, clean pavement, pressure wash buildings, clean glass and whatever else is used around a golf course all have one thing in common.
It doesn’t taste good.
The golf courses in my part of the world tend to be in second ring suburbs, that have matured, and feature sedimentation ponds, poorly maintained ditches, and aging infrastructure. The city of Blaine deals with numerous lift station pumps that clog all day, every day, and the trucks pull the pump, pressure was the baby wipes and sewage into the ditch, and reinstall the pump, with no concern for the stuff left behind. The things that turn up in storm sewers are scary, industrial waste that shouldn’t be there, but, is. Most of what ends up on the roads after a good truck accident just ends up in the watershed, you would be surprised how many major roads here don’t have storm sewers built near them. The sewage lagoon at the old pork farm up on 242 always had geese and seagulls hanging around it.
City birds, along with city mammals and city reptiles, are best avoided. We used to eat the crayfish out of the Rum River near Anoka, as kids, but, somebody told us to stop doing that, and, interestingly, we did. The suggestions on how often you should eat locally caught fish are surprising, with pregnant women being advised to eat none. Period.
Feel free to let us know how the geese, eat. I’ll pass.
Best,
Ted
